This event is part of Father Albert's ‘Creation Times’ organised by the Catholic parish of Klausen in cooperation with NABU Region Bernkastel-Wittlich.
Since returning and forming a pack in 2000 on a military training area in Upper Lusatia, wolves have spread continuously across large parts of Germany after being wiped out around 150 years ago and have repossessed their old home. However, livestock farmers, hunters and recreationists must first learn how to deal with the cautious wolves again. The return of the wolf harbours great opportunities. It forces us to rethink our relationship with nature, to stop categorising it into good and bad, useful and harmful. It reminds us not to see ourselves as the centre of creation, with the right to dominate everything and to live with nature instead of, as is so often the case, against it. And we should allow the wolves to fulfil their important role in the balance of nature and intervene as little as possible. Do we accept these challenges and fulfil our responsibility towards our grazing animals to protect them from wolves without regularly hunting and killing these ‘predators’? The film presentation by Sebastian Koerner attempts to answer whether and how all this can be achieved.